Lyrics

Long Time Come Around
© 2004 kate laurel smith, kate laurel publishing/ASCAP

That time I sat waiting alone in the rain
For you but you never came
Or those nights
I waited up by the phone to hear more than dial tone
But more of the same

How could I have spent my time
Hanging on by a thread, though a silver thread
For what I thought to be inside your head
Hanging on every word you said

It?s been a long time come around
A long time come around

Now I know better though I lost myself
More than one in your gaze
Or found myself
Nearly complete in your kiss unaware
That those were the days

I will not hold onto what cannot be
No that?s not my way
I put my hand to working without you
Yeah I put that away

Perhaps I have given too much of my thought
To what was and now is not
All those times
You held my hand in yours but wouldn?t claim my heart and tears
Nor the pain that you wrought

I could not command your attention or time
With a song or with a rhyme
A neon sign
Couldn?t see I was being taken for free
?cause you were all mine

listen carefully
I?m sorry we?ve had our turn
One moment treasured but then burned
One scrap of paper
Ignited by anger
Now saddened ashes but nothing more